Example sentences of "in recent years [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example The Sunday Times has asserted that , ‘ In recent years we 've experienced a new , aggressive , liberated criminality in women ’ ( 30 March , 1980 ) . |
| 2 | Now , er , before I hand over to Frank er , a word about the dividend er , in recent years we 've paid an interim dividend which was half the total of the previous year 's dividends and so , er , had a built-in increase . |
| 3 | And in the 70s , we were again working in Appalachia ; and in recent years we have expanded our program to again include the entire south . ’ |
| 4 | In recent years we have seen great efforts being made at all levels to ensure that children learn effectively . |
| 5 | In recent years we have seen the most thorough pursuit ever carried out to find partners in responsibility for the ailments to which we are subject . |
| 6 | In recent years we have seen a tremendous growth in interest and the range of activities , ’ said Mr Deighton , whose wife Maura was also a founder . |
| 7 | My bill falls into two parts , one which deals with the need for a full franchise it is sometimes mistakenly believed that we already have a full franchise in this country , but whereas legislation was passed in the past in order to extend the franchise , in recent years we have let matters slip considerably on the methods that are used for registration and no longer can we claim to have that full franchise . |
| 8 | In recent years we have learned much about the internal anatomy of cephalapsids and galeaspids which had a bony skeleton surrounding the brain and gills . |
| 9 | In recent years we have devoted substantial resources to reorganising our education systems in the UK and we see this continuing . |
| 10 | And in recent years they 've played a growing role in encouraging the public to recycle their rubbish . |
| 11 | In recent years they have fallen back . |
| 12 | It is not surprising that in recent years they have served interchangeably in the hands of various theorists as models of each other . |
| 13 | In recent years they have used commercial strategy consultants to undertake this work on behalf of their clients . |
| 14 | In recent years he had stayed only a day or two , until , overcome with boredom , he had returned home to watch Mrs Thatcher 's Leader 's speech on the telly . |
| 15 | In recent years he had made a point of appeasing the fundamentalists at the same time as co-opting left-wing opposition . |
| 16 | In recent years he has become increasingly involved in the conservation of neotropical mammals , and now has a deep involvement in research studies in Peru and Ecuador of the mountain tapir , ocelot and giant otter . |
| 17 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |
| 18 | In recent years he has coached many leading Midlands runners , including three times Olympian Lorraine Baker . |
| 19 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 20 | I 've worked with children in various settings , mainly in secondary school , and in recent years I 've worked with students , so when I try to make that sort of categorization I find it very difficult . |
| 21 | IN recent years I have made several trips to Portugal 's Algarve coast and on my last visit in January this year was presented with a booklet entitled ‘ Cricket in Portugal ’ . |
| 22 | After attending Sunday Mass in several parishes in recent years I have experienced attempts in some churches to get the people singing . |
| 23 | But in recent years it has lost its fury . |
| 24 | In recent years it has begun to experience high levels of adult and youth unemployment . |
| 25 | In recent years it has moved far more towards conceptualization in terms of ‘ theory ’ and ‘ practice ’ , to the extent that in some areas ( e.g. Iocational studies , certain parts of geomorphology ) the theory dominates the practice . |
| 26 | In recent years it has become fashionable to say that Modi only suffered from poverty because of his drinking and drug-taking . |
| 27 | In recent years it has become more acceptable to distinguish between different types of learning . |
| 28 | Much of the Forestry Commission 's early planting was certainly crude and insensitive , but in recent years it has become more attentive to its landscaping responsibilities ( not least because the Forestry Commission has found that there is money to be made out of tourism if it does so ) and now employs landscape consultants to advise on its planting policies . |
| 29 | In recent years it has become common , when the whole of the stated authorised share capital is not intended to be issued initially , to designate the unissued shares as ‘ unclassified shares . ’ |
| 30 | This standard was developed with commercial accounts in mind and it confirms the view that depreciation is a matter of allocation , not of valuation ; though in recent years it has become acceptable to allocate revalued amounts . |